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AMAZON – - THE SPECIAL EDITION is a chance to catch up with a silicon valley wanna be. amazon.com has continued to make the internet an enormous success. at the phone company business development used to call it the “fulfillment center”. in reality at amazon.com it’s e-commerce. pundits criticize bezos decision to expand from a bookstore [1997] into all purpose internet retailer. business strategy thought it was retail as a virtual business. think of it as a nordstrom version of kmart gone totally internet.
the only internet only retailer selling all things to all people amazon.com usage ranks in the internet top 10. according to industry sources amazon gets 49 million individual visitors as of june 2009. that’s just after big search companies like google msn yahoo ebay facebook aol who only serve up search results. ebay is the other big retail surprise for top 10 usage.
jeff bezos ”valleylist” avatar du jour objects to anti-internet criticisim. just invite him and amazon.com to silicon valley and he sends people to buy something. like most he steers clear of san jose and their “hate crime” project.
the result.
amazon.com plans to purchase netflix and make a move to silicon valley.
>amazon continues to grow
amazon.com to acquire zappos.com
amazon.com launches outdoor recreation store
amazon elastic mapreduce web service processing vast amounts of data
amazon.com launches inauguration store
amazon surprised everybody and entered the computer hardware business with the kindle ebook. what people didn’t know was that amazon is downloading millions of ebooks every month and started doing new movies and television online with the unpredictable and impossible to imitate strategy of “what next”. try watching movies on your pc with amazon video on demand and watch online.
>quarterly results highlights – - “operating cash flow was $1.84 billion for the trailing twelve months” and “net sales increased 14% to $4.65 billion”.
source amazon.com corporate
>stock splits
On July 21, 1999 2-for-1 split of common shares
On November 19, 1998 3-for-1 split of common shares
On April 27, 1998 2-for-1 split
>3 month view
quarterly report Amazon.com June 2009
three months ended june 30
Sales – - – - – - – - 2009 – - – - – - 2008
Net sales – - – - – $4,651 – - – - - $4,063
Cost of sales – - 3,518 - – - – - 3,096
Gross profit – - – - 1,133 – - – - – - 967
Sources of Revenue
Consolidated
Media – - – - – - – - $2,442[1%]- – - – $2,406[31%]
Electronics – - – - - 2,069[35%] - – - – - 1,531[58%]
& other general
merchandise
Other (1) – - – - – - – 140[11%] – - – - – - 126[52%]
Total – - – - – - – - – 4,651[14%] - – - – - $4,063[41%]
consolidated
source amazon.com quarterly report
amazon.com is mostly jeff bezos
founder and ceo jeff bezos opened amazon.com in 1994 in the state of washington and reincorporated in 1996 in delaware . the company’s principal corporate offices are located in seattle sashington. amazon.com completed its initial public offering in may 1997, and its common stock is listed on the nasdaq global select market under the symbol AMZN.
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Jeff Bezos Biography — Academy of Achievement
Jeff Bezos, Doing Business Online Article – Inc. Article
#70 Jeffrey P Bezos – Forbes.com
The 25 Most Influential People on the Web: The Innovator: Jeff Bezos …
Jeff Bezos – The 2009 TIME 100
TIME Cover: Jeff Bezos – Person of the Year 1999
Interview With Jeff Bezos On Amazon Web Services
amazon.com is a success that has spawned many imitators because of the profitability potential of the ”virtual store”. the reality is that you need a charismatic leader like bezos with a mysterious and successful strategy to make e-commerce on the web a real business with real profitability.
bezo’s recommends succeed as quickly as possible.
amazon is free yet sells very expensive products. it’s not for everybody. as bezoshimself might point out there are limits to how big an internet only bookstore can get. even worse is the lack of a solution to the search problems which actually plague all internet top 10 services. also lacking is a meaningful growth strategy with amazon buying almost anything that looks cheap. stock performance underwhelms most investors so bezos continues to provide a solid return a growth strategy based on buying new customers. that high risk approach means any bad aquisition could send amazon into an investor tailspin. fullfilment center is 9% of operating expense and needs a re-engineering project costing another 9% of expenses. probably not. bezos keeps the pressure on the revenue side of the business and wins every day.
no real competitors on the internet or elsewhere almost guarantee amazon a total success.
returning customers and amazon.com members probably account for the healthy profit. is it time for a normal marketing program so amazon can scoop up new internet and retail customers? let’s keep everybody guessing. competition for profitability is harsher than consumers might think.
a simple request for mr. bezos. please clean up those search results and indexes so customers don’t walk away empty handed.
MAYOR OF THE WEEK for daly city - – famous gateway to the peninsula – - is an unknown. a busy as transportation hub with samtrans bart daly city city government and serramonte mall earning lots of revenue daly city is an upscale area. the rest of high tech silicon valley remains unsure of where daly city fits in. for example nobody knows who the mayor of daly city is lately. try the daly city chamber of commerce for accurate information. in fact daly city needs to make room for high tech. the latest big event the daly city history museum opening this year makes it obvious there is a need for more “new”.
as for who’s the mayor there’s an obvious solution. let’s go all the way to chicago and get mayor richard daley involved all over again. the chicago daley political dynasty has helpful advice. vote.
those of us held hostage in san jose [like myself] were treated to colin hay sponsored by the san jose downtown association. “who can it be now” a men at work hit from the early 80′s still sounds like a #1 hit. it’s like a new version of “the police” from australia . men at work needed to continue to evolve their original sound. people never got tired of “the police” and their angle on how to make money in music.
like austrialia’s most famous money machine news corp founder rupert murdoch the rock group men at work explained their success by simply stating “i come from a land down under.”
NEW FEATURE EVERY WEEK focuses on chicago [population 2,833,000] Illinois the 5th largest state with 12.8 million people.
have mayor richard daley look up the numbers for the city of chicago at a chicago public library or the chicago chamber of commerce.
any visitor to chicago will tell you that the chicago police like to see people have fun. chicago police are usually friendly. did they strike a deal with the mob and the hood to keep the peace? maybe it’s just luck. unfortunately violence continues to be a real problem 200 shot In chicago during year since july 2008.
those interested need to know that obama comes from chicago and fought his way into the election only to become the u.s.a.’s first black president. my chicago sejour [based at northwestern’s academic hideout buckingham place was touring the miracle mile and not far off the frank lloyd wright architecture and of course the infamous sears tower. famous for really successful rock and roll groups and not really a political launching point chicago works hard and plays hard. ever since the era of mayor daley with old school political tactics and a very chicago-esque focus. for a very large city chicago lacks a real interest in national politics. until the 2008 election. while senators were fighting out an immense scandle over selling congressional seats - - blagojevich snubs senate and blagojevich arrested on federal charges - - mayor daley was fighting it out with the left-overs of the republican economy
- - mayor daley says city will emerge stronger from tough times
- - 2016 olympics presents chicago with historic transformation opportunity.
the "valleylist" marketing plan forthe 10 largest cities in the u.s.a. it's really the publications that make the difference.
- - chicago publications
austin weekly news
bulgaria sega
chicago defender
chicago journal
chicago reader
chicago sun times
chicago tribune
crain's chicago business
edison-norwood times review
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hyde park herald
inside publications
sun times news group
source chicago and illinois newspapers
the real chicago experience is to pack lots of money. be prepared to have fun. most people expect a boring business-only environment and instead it's great food and lots of opportunities to spend money.
mayor daley continues to be the toast of the town.
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with the "game of the century" out the window the hangers on continue to insist that they need to complete their "changing places" project.
no matter what it costs people.
and that "no matter what it costs people" is what finally brought the doomsday gang and their "hate crime" scenario to an end.
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